Best Practices
Production-ready patterns and guidelines for building robust MCP servers. Follow these best practices to build reliable, secure, and performant MCP integrations.
Proven design patterns for building maintainable, scalable MCP servers with mcp-framework and the official TypeScript SDK.
Handle errors gracefully in MCP servers with proper error types, user-friendly messages, and recovery strategies.
Comprehensive testing strategies for MCP servers including unit tests, integration tests, and end-to-end testing approaches.
Essential security checklist for MCP servers covering input validation, authentication, transport security, and data protection.
Optimize your MCP server for speed and efficiency with caching strategies, connection pooling, async patterns, and response size management.
Implement structured logging, performance metrics, health checks, and alerting for production MCP servers.
Master input validation for MCP tools using Zod schemas with sanitization patterns, custom validators, and helpful error messages.
Organize MCP server projects for maintainability with recommended file layouts, naming conventions, and configuration management patterns.